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11:40 AM ET ESPN.com Staff Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Every team has a mandated break of at least five days in a row during the 2017-18 season. Find out when your team is on a bye here. Anaheim Ducks: Jan. 7-12 Arizona Coyotes: Jan. 7-11 Boston Bruins: Jan. 8-12 Buffalo Sabres:

3:20 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The silver medal was placed around Swedish captain Lias Andersson’s neck, the traditional award for the team that loses the final game at the Under-20 IIHF World Junior Championship. Canada had defeated Sweden for gold on Friday night. Andersson frankly wasn’t having any of it. He glanced at the silver

1:29 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Swedish captain Lias Andersson threw his silver medal into the crowd on Friday night, after a 3-1 loss to Canada in the U20 World Junior Championship final in Buffalo, New York. Andersson, selected seventh overall in the 2017 NHL draft by the New York Rangers, received his medal from an

GUELPH, Ontario — Bruce Hood, the former NHL referee who worked 1,100 games over 21 seasons, died Friday of prostate cancer. He was 81. Kevin Hood said his father died at a hospice surrounded by family in Guelph. Bruce Hood was on the ice for some of the NHL’s most iconic moments, including Bobby Orr’s

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Kieffer Bellows one-upped Jeremy Roenick, Trent Frederic scored four times and the United States has a bronze medal to show for it. As consolation prizes go, it wasn’t a bad haul for the U.S., which rolled to a 9-3 victory over the Czech Republic in the bronze-medal game at the world junior

NEW YORK — New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider will undergo surgery to have a portion of a rib removed. The team announced the surgery Friday and said Kreider would be out indefinitely. Kreider hasn’t played since the Rangers’ shootout victory over the Washington Capitals on Dec. 27. The next day, the team said he

As we approach the second half of the 2017-18 season and the buyers and sellers begin to stand out, offensive-minded wingers like Montreal’s Alex Galchenyuk, Ottawa’s Mike Hoffman and Arizona’s Anthony Duclair could be the key players the league’s contenders pursue in trades. What do these players bring, what are their ideal destinations and what

The Vegas Golden Knights are off to a historically great start. The NHL’s newest franchise won eight consecutive games before Thursday night’s loss to the St. Louis Blues, which tied it with the 1976-77 Denver Nuggets of the NBA for the longest win streak by any pro sports franchise in its inaugural season over the

10:45 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN San Jose Sharks star Joe Thornton has one of the most resplendent beards in the NHL. It’s a bushy, multicolored masterpiece that he has grown out since the 2015 season. It’s also now a little lighter than it was before his game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night,